--- Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Di, den 14.12.2004 schrieb Ted Bolver um 22:18: > > > What it is, is that I've been using FC3 Test 3 and > > have just updated that over the weeks - as an > example: > > "Small" detail you missed in your first mail. Thanks Alex - yes, should have mentioned I've been moving from FC Test 3 to FC3 - has definately caused me a little confusion on the way. > > This is my fedora.repo file: (includes a reference > to > > a local list file which I'm currently using fine) > > > > [base] > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > > > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > > > #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever > > mirrorlist=file:///etc/yum.repos.d/local-base > > enabled=1 > > gpgcheck=0 > > From that we can't say which repositories you really > use as you use your > own mirrorlist file. So your main question can't be > answered with > certainty. "local-base" might contain the proper > entries or it might > not. > Why is gpgcheck disabled? I've enabled it now in both fedora.repo & fedora-updates.repo - for interest here's my current local-base: http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/3/$ARCH/os/ http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/core/3/$ARCH/os/ > You certainly updated to fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm > and that found an > existing and customized fedora.repo file. The RPM is > configured to not > blindly exchange such existing, non default files > but to create the > config file which comes with the RPM with the > .rpmnew suffix. This is a > behaviour for most packages coming with > configuration files. It prevents > that customisation gets lost during an update. > > > Ted > > Alexander Thanks for that Alex - so basically, do you think that my mirrors etc now look ok - so I probably don't need to use the .rpmnew files etc now. Thanks, Ted __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
